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personal meaning of assessment : an accurate picture of where students are academically and socially/emotionally.

personal assessments: dial 4 assessments, aeps (family perspective)

smarter not harder: think linear, piece by piece, and create expectations, and create routines & little systems.

intentionally look at the students skills and pay close attention

greatest advice: lean on the support of the community, take the help!! you have nothing to prove.

easy to love, difficult to discipline (book)

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personal definition of assessment: it is simply a procedure for making inferences. there are only valid/invalid interpretations.

go-to assessments: white boards

scaffolding!!

working smarter not harder: designing assessments strategically, understand the purpose of the problems and help students be flexible in their learning.

teachers have an important role in being patient for their students.

greatest advice: teach to the test (what's most important and what do you want them to know). Keep the end in mind!

teacher clarity playbook (book)

solo taxonomy by John Pegg lol

why should I teach? you won't know until you get your kids.

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On a clear day, you can learn forever- that's the adapted lyric you'll be happily humming once you've covered this playbook, because you will have mastered using learning intentions and success criteria, the twin engines of Teacher Clarity. This template-filled guide shows you how to own it, do it, and live it-and your students will be more successful as a result.

In this fully revised edition, this succinct, smart, and swift book's nine learning modules take you systematically through a process that begins and ends with standards. With abundant and all new examples that span grade levels, planning templates for every step, key professional learning questions, new videos, revised success criteria and relevance sections, and the latest research, you have the most practical and up-to-date planner for designing and delivering highly effective instruction:

Identifying Concepts and Skills

Sequencing Learning Progressions

Elaborating Learning Intentions

Crafting Success Criteria

Modifying Learning Intentions to Include Language Expectations

Determining the Relevance of the Learning

Designing Assessment Opportunities

Creating Meaningful Learning Experiences

Establishing Mastery of Standards

Designed for PLCs or independent teacher use, The Teacher Clarity Playbook helps practitioners align lessons, objectives, and outcomes of learning seamlessly, so that the classroom hours flow productively for everyone. For any teacher striving to be more organized and have stronger relationships with students, this is the book that shows you how.

· Designed to be used, not read, this playbook is filled with templates and tools for teachers to practice what they're learning.

· Can be used( ideally) in PLCs, or informally in teacher groups or even on your own.

· Includes ·step-by-step guide with examples from across the curriculum to guide teacher learning and practice.

· Explains core concepts, then models how the process is applied through examples for all grade levels and subjects.

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personal definition of assessment: getting to know what kids know and knowing how to use that information.

go-to assessments: exit tickets in everything! White boards

how do you work smarter not harder: make them do everything! not really, but let students assess each other too.

exit tickets really help you get to know your students and the students buy in better.

greatest advice: relationships - greeting at the door, getting to know families, sitting with the students, and have something with each student (Encanto, football games, etc.) you can never do too much procedure

when kids know what you expect of them they feel more secure

class has to be fun!

book or podcast:

culture code

ender's game

when you see the kid get it it'll all be worth it!

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personal definition of assessment: learning things about students so that they may be able to grow!

go-to assessment: whiteboards, learning continuum, small groups

how to work smarter not harder: collaborate! (it's not about me it's about my team; we work better together)

"show me what you know"

best advice: don't walk alone

resources:

twitter! instagram!

YouTube or pinterst collaboration

Book: how do you hug a porcupine?

why should I teach?

you go home with incredible stories & there are so many incredible students you get to leave impact on. other careers don't have that. you can cling to those things when you're having a tough year.

set goals in the classroom: a scoreboard!

teachers don't always meet their goals too.

anchor charts!

what is your genius?

love this one!

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personal definition of assessment: many are observations but others are also curriculum, social skills, analytical, data driven, everything is assessment!

go-to: tally's, amp's (benchmark assessment)

smarter not harder: be strategic, using different resources and the resources around you.

greatest advice: be around caw you surround yourself with. Have positive people surrounding you.

resources/advice

filtering out the stuff (people/things)

shut off the chatter

be healthy!

not being on social media as much

twitter!

behavior snap (app)

helps take quick data

why should I teach?

you will remember some students their entire life and they will remember you. you get to help students believe in themselves.

get to know the kids. you get to know you made an impact

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personal definition of assessment: when you have a goal or objective that you want to meet and seeing whether you met it.

go-to assessment: smart goals, educator rubrics (creating your own), rubric needs to match expectations and goals.

work harder not smarter: rubric; use formative assessment; you don't have to grade EVERYTHING.

greatest advice: have procedures and routines from day 1

review and reteach them always

resources

learning by doing (Bible of professional learning communities)

excellence in every classroom (book)

has a pyramid like Maslow's

cult of pedagogy (book and podcast)

think again by Adam Brandt

why teach?

teach for kids. you get to be a big part of development and it's a privilege to help them be successful the rest of their life.

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personal definition of assessment: it is a tool of what they know now and what they need to know next.

go-to assessment: hand-on! tool kits! "show me"

loves rules and routines

be okay with making mistakes

work smarter not harder: have a good work life balance; set boundaries; work ahead; work with your team

greatest advice:

be extra nice to the secretary and the custodian

listen to your team and coworkers

try new things!

stay off your phone

don't take yourself too seriously

leave your home problems at the door

"it's my best day if you are here"

resources

out of my mind (book)

why teach?

it is a fun job

kids think you're hilarious

you're impacting the future

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A Reading Group Guide to Out of My Mind
by Sharon M. Draper
Discussion Topics
1. The novel opens with a powerful discussion of the power of words and language. How does this help capture the reader's attention? What predictions can the reader make about the narrator of the story? What inferences can be made about the thought processes of the narrator's mind?

2. In a world that does not work for her, what seems to cause the biggest frustrations for Melody?

3. Describe Melody's parents. How do they learn to communicate with Melody and help her to overcome everyday problems? Why are those efforts sometimes a complete failure?

4. How does Melody feel about school? How does she fit in with her classmates and what makes her different from the rest of the children in H-5? What would be Melody's ideal school situation?

5. Discuss Melody's teachers since she began going to school. What does this say about her school system, or about attitudes at her school about teaching children with special needs?

6. Describe Mrs. V. What role does she play in Melody's development? Why is she a necessary addition to Melody's life?

7. What is significant about the story of Ollie the fish? How does Ollie's life mirror Melody's? Describe Melody's feelings when she is unable to tell her mother what really happened.

8. Describe how the introduction of Penny as a character changes the family dynamics. Analyze Melody's complicated feelings about her little sister.

9. How does the inclusion program change Melody's school experiences? Describe both positive and negative results of the program. Describe Melody's deep, unrealized need for a friend.

10. What does Melody learn about friendship during the trip to the aquarium? Make a comparison between Ollie's life, the life of the fish in the aquarium, and Melody's life.

11. How does Melody's computer change her life, her outlook on life, and her potential? Why does she name it Elvira?

12. Why does Melody decide to enter the quiz team competition? What obstacles must she face and overcome just to get on the team?

13. What does Melody learn about friendship and the relationships of children working together as she practices and competes with the quiz team? What does she learn about herself?

14. What is ironic about the events at the restaurant after the competition? How does this scene foreshadow the events that led up to the airport fiasco?

15. Describe Melody's feelings before the trip to the airport, while she is there, and after she gets home. How would you have coped with the same situation?

16. Describe Melody's extreme range of emotions as she tries to tell her mother that Penny is behind the car. How did the scene make you feel?

17. Discuss the scene in which Melody confronts the kids on the quiz team. What is satisfying about how she handles the situation? What else might Melody have done?

18. Why is the first page repeated at the end of the book? How has Melody changed, both personally and socially, from the beginning of the book to the end?

19. How would this story have been different if it had been written from a third-person point of view; from the point of view of her parents, for example, or simply from the viewpoint of an outside observer?

20. Explain the title of the novel. Give several possible interpretations.
Activities and Research
1. Put yourself in Melody's chair. Write a paper that tells what it would be like to be Melody for one day. Write about your feelings and frustrations.

2. Investigate the problems of children with cerebral palsy, especially those that are of school age. How does it affect the child socially, academically, and personally?

3. Investigate the possible causes of cerebral palsy, and what preventative measures, if any, can be taken by the mother.

4. Research current laws for inclusion of children with disabilities into classrooms. What effect, if any, do such things have on a school community?

5. Research current treatment options or communication devices for young people like Melody.

6. Write a letter to one of the characters in the book explaining your feelings about the events in the story. What advice would you give Melody, Rose, Mr. D, or Mrs. V?

7. Describe the relationship between the able-bodied children and Melody. Would you describe it as a true friendship? When situations become monumental and overwhelming to young people, what is likely to happen? Explain.

8. Imagine it is the last day of fifth grade. Write a letter or create a conversation between one of the following pairs of characters:

Rose and Melody

Melody and Mrs. V

Melody and Catherine

Mr. D and Melody

Melody and Claire

9. Trace the story of one of the following characters. Imagine you are a reporter doing a story on one of their lives. Write everything you know, as well as whatever you can infer about the character in order to write your magazine article.

10. You are a reporter at one of the following scenes. Write the story for your newspaper.

Student with Disabilities makes Quiz Team

Child Struck by Family Car

Big Storm Grounds Air Traffic

Local Quiz Team Wins Big

This guide has been provided by Simon & Schuster for classroom, library, and reading group use. It may be reproduced in its entirety or excerpted for these purposes.

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personal definition of assessment: can students apply knowledge?

give students opportunities to apply knowledge in different ways.

keep giving students opportunities to grow

go-to assessments:

start with the standards, break them down, let your students know that. the same 5 ideas were consistent.

"tell me more about this"

open ended tests

smarter not harder: go slow to start with; take a little piece and do the best you can with it and progress that. "what's the smallest thing you can do that will make the biggest impact?"

look at things as a compass and not a map, help everyone work toward the same place

it's not easy when you're alone

advice: "do you know and care about their kid?"

build relationships with your students!

resources:

culture code (book)

little bets (book)

why teach?

we need education the most.

students needs kids who are consistent and caring and stable

be one of those people

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Well Researched And Well Written Gem Little Bets was produced, written and published by applying exactly the lessons it conveys: be open to new opportunities, don't be afraid to fail, but fail fast to move ahead fast.